On the night Chinese New Year's Eve 1792, the 81-year-old Qianlong summoned the 79-year-old Concubine Yu to bed.
The eunuch was stunned, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and said in a low voice: Emperor: Master Yu is 79 years old, the brand has been withdrawn early, do you want to change to a young one.
Qianlong was furious, and he only wanted Concubine Yu tonight.
Why does Qianlong have such a strong obsession with flying?
Mainly because he hadn't been there for years
Because he hadn't seen her for many years, and Qianlong missed Fifth Brother Yongqi too much.
Although at that time, Concubine Yu was not favored among the many concubines in Qianlong's harem, because if she wanted to become a favored concubine, she looked at the family lineage, the means, and the providence. Appearance is not ranked in the competition for favor, because the emperor's women are very beautiful, so beauty alone cannot attract the emperor.
But Yufei Sheng gave birth to a good son, that is, the famous Yongqi in history.
Concubine Yu is beautiful, but she does not compete for favors. So Qianlong has always been very cold to her. Until Qianlong ascended the throne, Concubine Yu was only given the title of Chang Zai, ranking second to last among the harem concubines.
The turning point in Concubine Yu's life was in the fifth year of Qianlong. One summer, Qianlong inadvertently passed by the Yonghe Palace, and only after being reminded by the eunuchs did he remember Concubine Yu, who lived here. Concubine Yu dressed simply but looked pure and lovely, and Qianlong felt that his eyes were bright, so he spoiled Concubine Yu.
Concubine Yu's identity at this time also got a small promotion, promoted to a nobleman, Concubine Yu was also very contentious, just because of this favor, she became pregnant, and gave birth to a son in October.
That is, the five brothers who often appear in TV series, who are talented, but unfortunately died young. The royal family always attached great importance to heirs, so Concubine Yu's mother became a nobleman by virtue of her son.
Concubine Yu entered the palace at the age of 13 and gave birth to her son at the age of 27. But in the past fourteen years, Concubine Yu has always been a little transparent in the palace, but with this son, her life has begun to get better and better.
After Concubine Yu was promoted to the position of concubine, Yongqi was able to raise herself. However, during this period, Concubine Yu was not favored by Qianlong again, but among the many princes, it did not affect Qianlong's favor for Yongqi.
This is because Concubine Yu is very good at teaching children, and Concubine Yu let the fifth brother learn all kinds of knowledge from a young age, and he made the fifth brother understand from a very early age that he is not a concubine, nor is he the eldest son, nor is he a noble son. He was just an extremely ordinary person among the many princes of Qianlong, and his mother didn't even have a powerful foreign relative to help him, so he had to fight for everything he wanted.
The fifth brother is also very competitive, he is extremely excellent among the princes of Qianlong, he is proficient in the Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and multi-dream language, he is also good at riding and shooting, knows astronomy and calendar, poetry and painting are also proficient, basically a literary and martial arts all-rounder.
So Qianlong's expectations for him were still very high, Qianlong because he was not a concubine, so he very much hoped that his concubine could succeed to the throne, but Empress Fucha gave him two sons: the second brother and the seventh brother, both died one after another. He also broke the idea that he must let his sister-in-law succeed to the throne.
At that time, the fifth brother also had the third and fourth brothers, but Qianlong had the highest expectations of him.
Qianlong's importance to Yongqi. The most important thing is that because of the Dragon Boat Festival in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong, the Qingyan of Kyushu caught fire, and Qianlong was trapped in the temple at that time, and his closest son Brother Four and brother Hongli did not immediately come to rescue him, but Yongqi, who was the farthest away, regardless of his own safety, rescued him from the fire.
After this incident, Qianlong thought that Yongqi was a filial child, and he had secretly decided in his heart that he would let Yongqi inherit the throne.
Even if Empress Ulanara later gave birth to her first son, 12 Agoyongki, he still liked the five Agoyongki.
At the age of 24, Yongqi was made the Prince of Heshuorong, and Qianlong had 17 sons, but only three were crowned princes. And Yongqi is the earliest one, it can be said that the future is promising, and Concubine Yu is becoming more and more favored.
But the creation of people, Yongqi suffered from compound bone sores, this disease in the medical conditions at that time, can be cured, but I don't know why, when the imperial doctor treated Yongqi, the amount of medicine was very light, Yongqi's disease was dragged more and more serious, and died in less than a year.
Yongqi's death left Qianlong so grief-stricken that he ordered all the imperial doctors who treated him to be killed, and his son Mianyi was brought up in the palace himself.
With the death of the fifth brother, Concubine Yu also slowly fell silent in the palace, and she returned to the life of the past without competition, and as there were more and more concubines in the harem, Qianlong no longer went to see him.
But this year, after the 81-year-old Qianlong Chinese New Year's Eve night banquet, he actually had to summon the 79-year-old Concubine Yu, and when the women in the harem turned 50, their green cards were removed, which meant that they could no longer sleep.
But Qianlong insisted on calling Concubine Yu, and the two old men couldn't do anything, and this night, Qianlong only announced Concubine Yu because he missed Yongqi too much.
Yongqi is the son of the two of them, and all emotions can only be understood by the two of them. When people are old, they want to remember the people and events of the past, and Concubine Yu died a few months after talking about Yongqi with Qianlong at the age of 79, which was the last time they met.
If Yongqi hadn't died so early, the next emperor would have been his.
It is a pity that the sky is jealous of talents, so that Qianlong lost this favored prince early. However, in his later years, Qianlong could think of Yongqi again, and he would not be his son in vain.